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A woman who used a pseudonym on Facebook so that she’d be more difficult to find has changed her name by deed poll to the fake name because she was blocked from accessing her account.

Jemmaroid von Laalaa, who was previously called Jemma Rogers, had been using the made-up name since 2008 so that she could avoid getting friend requests from people she didn’t want to befriend on the social network. But that plan backfired when she lost access to her account,according to The Independent.

Twitter has been engaged in an ongoing series of talks to acquire Flipboard, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation, in an all-stock deal that would value the company at over $1 billion.

Those discussions, which have been pushed by Twitter CFO Anthony Noto, have been taking place since the beginning of the year, said sources, as the social communications giant has faced increasing pressure from Wall Street to grow its audience and innovate its products. But despite a flurry of activity more recently, sources said these talks between Twitter and Flipboard — who are partners on a number of different fronts — seem to be currently stalled.

In mid-March, we commissioned Nielsen to conduct an online survey of more than a thousand U.S. moviegoers, ages 13-54. Our goal was to explore how people are already engaging with upcoming summer movies on Twitter to understand Twitter’s influence on summer movie awareness. Read on for the results, and to find out how you can use Twitter’s newest features to engage and mobilize audiences throughout the summer.

I read this post and wonder who this is written for. This was posted at the end of April, the beginning of the summer movie season. It’s not like movie marketers can suddenly switch strategies and share photos and videos from behind the scenes.

Perhaps the better post would be what you can learn from how summer blockbusters use Twitter.

But perhaps she had now come to understand that her shaming wasn’t really about her at all. Social media is so perfectly designed to manipulate our desire for approval, and that is what led to her undoing. Her tormentors were instantly congratulated as they took Sacco down, bit by bit, and so they continued to do so. Their motivation was much the same as Sacco’s own — a bid for the attention of strangers — as she milled about Heathrow, hoping to amuse people she couldn’t see.

Until now, when someone passed away, we offered a basic memorialized account which was viewable, but could not be managed by anyone. By talking to people who have experienced loss, we realized there is more we can do to support those who are grieving and those who want a say in what happens to their account after death.

Starting with iOS 7, Apple added a new "shared links" tab to its bookmarks in Safari. If you have a Twitter account connected to your iPhone, a tab in the bookmarks button called "shared links" (and marked with an @ symbol) will show you a list of links included in tweets by people you follow. In iOS 8, Safari no longer automatically asks Twitter for new links. Instead, it only looks for new links when the feature is actually invoked by the user. That meant million fewer MAUs are now counted for Twitter.